My Details
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Great Britain , London
Current Work Details
- What I do
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WRITER
- Company
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RENALDO'S LIMITED
- Where I work
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I am an individual working from home
- Technical Skills
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Writing, Script Analysis & Script Doctoring, Teaching
- Resources / Expertise
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20 years experience as critic, script reader, script doctor
- Availability
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Paid Work or Collaboration
Shooters Q&A
- Films I wish I had made
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, THE LADYKILLERS, RESERVOIR DOGS, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, THE PIANO, RAISING ARIZONA, PEEPING TOM, WHITE HEAT, VOLVER, BRIGHT STAR, SUNSHINE, MOON, CORALINE, LUST, CAUTION, THE HURT LOCKER
- I cried watching
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THE MISSION (buckets!), THE ELEPHANT MAN, FEARLESS, LORENZO'S OIL, MY NAME IS JOE, THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, VERA DRAKE, SECRETS & LIES, I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, 21 GRAMS
- I left the cinema during
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I never walk out. Partly because I worked as a critic at one time and feel duty bound to watch the whole thing, however dreadful. Plus I've paid my money; if the film's really bad, take advantage of the nice comfy seats to have a nap. I fell asleep in DEATH IN VENICE. Visconti, cinematic genius, eh? Pretentious bollocks more like. And Woody Allen. Don't talk to me about Woody Allen. Have you tried watching Scenes from a Mall?
- Directors I love
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Kubrick (up to & including THE SHINING), Tarkovsky, The Coen Brothers, Danny Boyle, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Nicole Holofcener, Almodovar, Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow, Ridley Scott (mostly...), Peter Weir, Gilles MacKinnon, Antonia Bird, The Coppolas - Francis Ford & now Sofia, Neil Jordan (mostly...), Steven Spielberg, Bill Forsyth, Andrea Arnold, Ron Howard
- Actors I admire
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James Cagney, Bogart, Hepburn & Bacall, Peter Lorre, Bette Davis, Jack Lemmon, Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins & Susan Sarandon, Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Nic Cage, Renee Zellweger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Leonardo diCaprio, John Hurt, Helen Mirren, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, Mark Strong, Anthony Hopkins, Burton & Taylor, Timothy Spall, Tom Hardy, Naomie Harris, Michael Sheen, Ray Winstone, Saorise Ronan, Tim Roth, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo, Gabriel Byrne, Jude Law, all Redgraves & Richardsons, Daniel Craig, Paul Nicholls, Morgan Freeman, Carmen Maura, Penelope Cruz, Gael Garcia Bernal, Patricia Clarkson, Catherine Keener, Jeremy Renner, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Anna Paquin & I could go on all day....
- Writers I respect
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THE COEN BROTHERS, WILLIAM GOLDMAN, RONALD HARWOOD, PAUL LAVERTY, NORA EPHRON, ALEX GARLAND, JASON REITMAN & SHELDON TURNER, ARMANDO IANUCCI, DAN O'BANNON & RONALD SHUSETT (ALIEN), PETER MORGAN
- My desert island discs
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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF REM, And THE WHO, And MADONNA, And PET SHOP BOYS, And lots of dance music, And Arvo Part, And Jan Gabarek
- Books I have given my friends
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A SUITABLE BOY, THE HANDMAID'S TALE, IT (Stephen King)
- My death row meal
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Lamb done Moroccan style with spices & apricots, Summer pudding, A vat of Chardonnay
- The best thing I own
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My enormous talent and imagination
- More about me
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That's it really!
Shooting People stuff
- Joined
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10/5/2002
- Recent Bulletin Posts
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16/9/2011 Hear your script out loud - ScriptTank returns from 21 Sep
4/5/2011 I have no agent and need advice!
14/9/2010 Best death scene in a movie? Bring me SUNSHINE
23/3/2010 Brighton Rock and changing the ending
11/9/2009 One of London's cinemas is under threat!
11/9/2009 Script Tank - Hear Your Script Out Loud
30/9/2008 Paul's queries
19/9/2008 ScriptTank - hear your script read out loud - starts 24 September
1/8/2008 Revelations, dead twins & mountaineering
4/7/2008 Vegan Screenwriter
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